@inproceedings{2e839d9551124285983e286567fefb0f,
title = "Ovarian tissue characterization using bulk optical properties",
abstract = "Ovarian cancer, the deadliest of all gynecologic cancers, is not often found in its early stages due to few symptoms and no reliable screening test. Optical imaging has a great potential to improve the ovarian cancer detection and diagnosis. In this study we have characterized the bulk optical properties of 26 ex-vivo human ovaries using a Diffuse Optical Tomography system. The quantitative values indicated that, in the postmenopausal group, malignant ovaries showed significantly lower scattering coefficient than normal ones. The scattering parameter is largely related to the collagen content that has shown a strong correlation with the cancer development.",
keywords = "Diffuse optical imaging, optical absorption, optical scattering, ovarian cancer",
author = "B. Tavakoli and Y. Xu and Q. Zhu",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1117/12.2008217",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780819493477",
series = "Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE",
booktitle = "Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue X",
note = "Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue X ; Conference date: 03-02-2013 Through 06-02-2013",
}